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Pingveno wrote: |
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> I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition to fit Gentoo on a new laptop. |
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> As recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using |
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> Knoppix & Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about |
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> accounting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's |
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> redundant). After a little bit of Google searching, I discovered I |
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> needed to use chkdsk on Windows with the /f switch to fix the errors. |
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> Easy. Of course, chkdsk alerted me that it can't modify a running NTFS |
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> system. Okay, so I do what it recommends to me: let the checking be |
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> run after a reboot. |
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> None of this is exactly extraordinary. However, there is the slight |
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> problem that chkdsk never actually runs at start up. No bueno. Any |
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> tricks to con it into working? |
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> -Pingveno |
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> P.S. This is a Thinkpad T43 |
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You can try booting with "bartPE", or a disk you can make with "nlite". |
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These tools both allow you to create a bootable windows CD in the |
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Knoppix style. |
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